DescriptionOT has had difficulty accounting for opacity effects (Kiparsky, 1971), which involve the violation of faithfulness unmotivated by surface structual harmony. OT researchers have proposed that these faithfulness violations can be motivated by relating the candidate output to outputs of morphologically related forms (Benua, 1997) or failed candidates (McCarthy, 1998).
This paper outlines an alternative approach: enlarging the space of phonological representations so that outputs may contain covert/'Turbid' structure. The proposal is illustrated through an examination of compensatory lengthening in Luganda and overapplication of fricative assimilation in German. We also examine contrasts between Turbidity and other OT approaches to opacity.
NoteThis is authors' final version of the paper. The definitive version was published in NELS 30: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 30 (2000) and is available at http://glsa.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/list.cgi?NELS%NELS30%5%N
NoteGoldrick, M. (2000). Turbid Output Representations and the Unity of Opacity. In M. Hirotani, North East Linguistic Society & Rutgers University (Eds.), Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 30. Amherst: GLSA.
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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